2008 Rural Institute
Behind Closed Doors XI: Breaking the Silence in Rural Communities
It Happens... Stop Pretending it Doesn't!
Recognize - Report - Respond
May 6, 7 & 8, 2008.
Chipola College
Marianna, FL
FCADV's Rural Training Institute brings together advocates and practitioners working to protect battered women and their children in rural communities. The institute offers a wide array of speakers and is designed to help domestic violence advocates, professionals and community members work together to end violence against women. Online Registration for the institute is open. Click here to view the brochure.
FCADV's Mellie McDaniel Award is presented to an outstanding law enforcement professional responding to domestic violence in rural communities. This individual is an officer or a victim advocate affiliated with a law enforcement agency, and is someone who has greatly impacted the field of domestic violence with his or her unyielding compassion and integrity. Awards will be presented at the FCADV Rural Training Institute, Behind Closed Doors XI - Breaking the Silence in Rural Communities on May 6, 2008, at Chipola College in Marianna, Florida. For more information or to make a nomination, please review the Mellie McDaniel Award Nomination Form.
Rural Initiative
The mission of the FCADV's Rural Initiative is to provide for the safety of the most isolated and endangered victims of domestic and sexual violence in rural areas within the state of Florida. The Initiative is based on the community organizing model whereby the community and judicial organizing is essential to the long-term success of direct services provided to rural victims.
Since it's inception in 1996, the FCADV rural initiative has opened 17 outreach offices serving 21 counties in Rural Florida. More than 2500 rural victims have been provided with crisis intervention services, and three new shelters have been established. Seventeen domestic violence task forces have been formed in rural communities. The task forces have played a key role in increasing the reporting of domestic violence in rural areas, and in the development of interagency protocols to respond to this crime.
One of the lasting outcomes of this initiative has been the annual Rural Conference, "Behind Closed Doors--Breaking the Silence in Rural Communities," In 2006 the conference attracted more than 350 participants including law enforcement officers, advocates, attorneys, shelter executive directors, staff employees from the department of health and children's and families, volunteers and community activists.
For more information, contact the FCADV Rural Program Coordinator by telephone at (850)425-2749
Rural Resource Center for Social Justice
FCADV's Rural Resource Center for Social Justice is a technical assistance project that serves the Southeast regional grant recipients of STOP Violence Against Women Formula Grants, which includes the following geographical areas: Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The Center is positioned to provide comprehensive support on the following issue areas: basic and advanced training for persons and agencies that have contact with survivors of domestic and sexual violence; providing culturally competent services, including services to traditionally underserved populations; innovative coordinated community responses; training on immigration issues; and skill development in program management.
The goal of the Center is to create long-term, financially-sustainable domestic violence and sexual assault programs that provide direct services to survivors living in isolated, rural communities. Teams of experts from local, state and national organizations will provide training and technical assistance to rural domestic and sexual violence organizations and their community partners.
Working together we can minimize the social injustices that result from non-existent or inadequate services for domestic and sexual violence victims in rural communities
FCADV RRCSJ Quarterly - Issue One
For more information, contact the FCADV Rural Coordinator by telephone at (850)425-2749
FLORIDA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
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